Do your employees feel your organization focuses enough on patient safety? Is creating a safe environment for patients and staff, perceived as a high priority by healthcare organizations?

Despite years of investments in clinical training and guidelines, information technology, process redesign, and industry regulations, organizational culture remains one of the key root causes of safety issues. To change this, an organization needs to change its culture to one where every staff member recognizes his or her responsibility to maintain and improve patient safety.

How a Patient Safety Culture Evaluation Can Help Your Organization

Before organizational culture can be transformed, it must first be understood and confronted. The starting point for change is assessing your safety culture. From this understanding, action can be planned. A patient safety culture assessment is the quickest way to gain the most information about the organization’s current safety culture. The assessment can be leveraged to:

• Identify areas for improvement and raise awareness about patient safety
• Evaluate the impact of patient safety interventions and track changes over time
• Identify barriers to improvement efforts
• Conduct internal and external benchmarking
• Allow employee input into safety improvement efforts Fulfill accreditation requirements

Agili-T’s Patient Safety Culture Assessment Survey provides you with a “validated” measurement instrument, proven implementation method garnering high response rates, robust data, analysis and actionable reporting to help you identify opportunities to enhance the culture of safety within your organization. Our end-to-end services include: paper questionnaire distribution, online data collection, analysis, benchmarking and reporting as well as pre and post survey communications planning.

Download our Patient Safety Culture brochure from the Knowledge Centre.